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David Lambert (editor) and
Alan Lester (editor)
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Cambridge Univ Pr
Publication date
December 31, 2006
Pages
376
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780521847704
ISBN-10
0521847702
Dimensions
1 by 6.25 by 9 in.
Weight
1.70 lbs.
Published in
Great Britain
Original list price
$125.00
Other format details
university press
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: This volume uses a series of portraits of 'imperial lives' in order to rethink the history of the British Empire in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It tells the stories of men and women who dwelt for extended periods in one colonial space before moving on to dwell in others, developing 'imperial careers'. These men and women consist of four colonial governors, two governors' wives, two missionaries, a nurse/entrepreneur, a poet/civil servant and a mercenary. Leading scholars of colonialism guide the reader through the ways that these individuals made the British Empire, and the ways that the empire made them. Their life histories constituted meaningful connections across the empire that facilitated the continual reformulation of imperial discourses, practices and cultures. Together, their stories help us to re-imagine the geographies of the British Empire and to destabilize the categories of metropole and colony.
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